Police have released the 911 call that ended a day-long multi-agency manhunt for a convicted murdered that was accidentally released from Miami-Dade County Jail.
"I'm calling from University of Miami emergency room," said nurse Marc Charles. "Were you guys looking for Dexter Davis?"
"Who?" asked the 911 operator, before a birth date provided by Charles connected her to the case of the missing murderer.
Davis, 36, was convicted October 17 of stabbing his ex-girlfriend 15 times with a foot-long butcher knife, then released by mistake the next morning.
Charles recognized Davis from TV news when he was checked into Unversity of Miami Hospital the same day he walked free.
"He is wanted," the operator confirmed. "Is he there in the hospital?"
"Yes, he's in the hospital...he's in a bed," Charles reported. "He's in the psych unit."
Miami police have not yet said how or why Davis wound up in the psychiatric unit at UM, but did confirm he was taken back into custody without incident. He subsequently pled not guilty to an escape charge.
Davis was initially arrested in 2009 by Opa Locka police after allegedly stabbing his former girlfriend 15 times in the apartment she shared with her children.
Officers found Davis inside the bloody apartment, with his ex-girlfriend lying in a back bedroom with near-fatal wounds and the butcher knife still embedded in her left arm, according to the arrest report.
The woman had a restraining order out against Davis at the time, police said.
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A Corrections spokesperson has said the department launched an internal investigation into how Davis was released.
Sources suggest a corrections employee, apparently confused by an indication of time served on a less serious misdemeanor charge, applied the time served provision to all of Davis' charges and released him.
